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Gorka Verdugo

Gorka Verdugo (Tour de France 2007 - stage 7) (cropped).jpg
Verdugo at the 2007 Tour de France

Personal information
Full name Gorka Verdugo Markotegui
Born
(1978-11-04) 4 November 1978 (age 40)
Etxarri-Aranatz, Spain
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 69 kg (152 lb)
Team information
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Climber
Professional team(s)
2004–2013 Euskaltel–Euskadi



Gorka Verdugo Markotegui (born 4 November 1978) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI ProTour team Euskaltel–Euskadi.[1]


Born in Etxarri-Aranatz, Navarre, Verdugo has not yet won any races, but made his Giro d'Italia debut in 2005 (86th) and his Tour de France debut in 2006 (75th). His highest placing in the Tour de France was in 2011 (25th), however despite completing it an impressive 6 times he has never had a top ten finish in any stage of the race. Considered a reliable team rider, his is best individual tour performance was on stage 16 in the 2007 Tour de France where in a breakaway he gained enough points in the mountains classification to finish 11th overall in Paris. He finished 11th overall in the 2012 Vuelta a Espana, marking his best grand tour finish yet.




Contents






  • 1 Career achievements


    • 1.1 Major results


    • 1.2 Grand Tour general classification results timeline




  • 2 References


  • 3 External links





Career achievements



Major results




2006

10th Overall Clasica a Alcobendas

2008

5th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

7th Overall Paris–Nice

10th Overall Volta a Catalunya

10th Subida a Urkiola

2009

8th Klasika Primavera

2012

3rd Gran Piemonte

2013

7th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia




Grand Tour general classification results timeline




















































Grand Tour
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013

A pink jerseyGiro d'Italia

68








64

A yellow jerseyTour de France


74

47

70

60

35

24

DNF


A red jerseyVuelta a España






83

36

11

63













Legend

Did not compete

DNF
Did not finish


References





  1. ^ Urraburu, Benito (21 October 2012). "Euskaltel ya tiene completo su equipo para 2013 con diez nuevos fichajes" [Euskaltel team already full for 2013 with ten new signings]. El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Grupo Vocento. Retrieved 4 January 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}




External links




  • Media related to Gorka Verdugo at Wikimedia Commons


  • Gorka Verdugo at Cycling Archives










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